R. Madhavan Quotes
All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
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I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
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All actresses, including me, want to look great on screen.
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I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'
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The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].
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Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?
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'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.
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I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
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And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.
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On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.
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Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.
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That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.
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I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work.
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What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.
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If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.
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It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.
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I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
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The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.
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You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.
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All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.
